How to care for the springflower bonsai
Here are some floral knowledge tips on how to care for the springflower bonsai and the correct cultivation methods for springflowers, with detailed information as follows:
The springflower, also known as yingxia, egg yolk, or bumblebee, belongs to the Oleaceae family, Jasminum genus, and is an erect or climbing semi-evergreen shrub, growing 0.4-3 meters tall. Young branches are brown or yellow-green, the current year's branches are grass-green, twisted, four-angled, and hairless.
Springflower leaves are alternate, compound leaves with 3 or 5 small leaves, rarely 7, and there is often a single leaf at the base of the young branches; petioles are 2-10 mm long; the upper surface of the leaves and small leaflets is glossy, and when dry, often has transverse wrinkles, hairless on both sides, rarely pubescent along the midvein; the small leaflets are ovate, ovate-elliptical to elliptical, rarely obovate or nearly round, 0.7-3.5 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, with an acute apex and a small tip, rarely obtuse or round, base cuneate or round, the midvein is sunken on the upper surface and convex on the lower, lateral veins are not obvious; the terminal small leaflets are often slightly larger, with a petiolule 0.2-1.2 cm long, lateral small leaflets are nearly sessile; single leaves are usually broadly ovate, elliptical, or nearly round, 1-2.5 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide.
How to care for the springflower bonsai
Springflower has corymbs or umbel-like corymbs of flowers at the top, with 3-25 flowers; bracts are conical, 3-7 mm long; pedicels are absent or up to 2 cm long; the calyx has 5 prominent ribs, hairless, the calyx tube is 1-2 mm long, the lobes are conical-linear, 1-3 mm long; the corolla is yellow, nearly funnel-shaped, the corolla tube is 0.9-1.5 cm long, the lobes are ovate or oblong, 4-8 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, with an acute apex, rarely rounded, margins puberulent.
Fruits are oblong or spherical, 5-10 mm long, 5-10 mm in diameter, turning black when mature.